Did you know that scientists are creating cow/human hybrids, pig/human hybrids and even mouse/human hybrids? This is happening every single day in labs all over the western world, but most people have never even heard about it. So would you drink milk from a cow/human hybrid that produces milk that is almost identical to human... Continue Reading →

America is the land of equal opportunity. At least that’s what we tell ourselves. But most of know that’s never really been true, even moreso today. Many factors determine whether we advance beyond the step on the economic ladder on which we were born: Are you black or white? Were your parents married or divorced?... Continue Reading →

Falling Fruit is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets. By quantifying this resource on a map, we hope to facilitate intimate connections between people, food, and the natural organisms growing in our neighborhoods. Not just a free lunch! Foraging in the 21st century is an opportunity for urban exploration, to... Continue Reading →

Next Wednesday, Sept. 10, if your favorite website seems to load slowly, take a closer look: You might be experiencing the Battle for the Net’s “Internet Slowdown,” a global day of grass-roots action. Protesters won’t actually slow the Internet down, but will place on their websites animated “Loading” graphics (which organizers call “the proverbial ‘spinning... Continue Reading →

Sensory neurons located in your fingertips perform mathematical calculations that provide us with geometric information about objects we touch, a new study has found. This exciting discovery is titillating neuroscientists because it was long believed that such computations were reserved for neurons in the brain. The work has been published in Nature Neuroscience. Touch, or... Continue Reading →

Last summer, Greenfield cycled 4,700 miles across the US on a bamboo bicycle during his Off the Grid Across America bike tour, and he's also gone a year without showering, pedaled across Iowa with no bike seat for his Stand Up for Sustainability tour, and biked from NYC to Boston using only water from leaky... Continue Reading →

Think your money's not going very far this year? It's not your imagination. According to new research by the Economic Policy Institute, real hourly wages declined for almost everybody in the U.S. workforce in the first half of 2014. Thanks, so-called recovery. Economist Elise Gould pored over data from the government’s Current Population Survey and... Continue Reading →

An ancient star in the halo surrounding the Milky Way galaxy appears to contain traces of material released by the death of one of the universe's first stars, a new study reports. The chemical signature of the ancient star suggests that it incorporated material blasted into space by a supernova explosion that marked the death... Continue Reading →

Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat just unveiled an amazing new power plant in Roskilde that will generate energy from waste! The newly opened Energy Tower will produce both electricity and heat through the process of incineration, and it features a perforated double-layer façade that will glow throughout the night. Roskilde’s new power plant will incinerate... Continue Reading →

NASA is developing an air traffic control system for drones. The New York Times reports the US space agency is working on creating a management system for vehicles that fly at around 400 to 500 feet off the ground — much lower than conventional aircraft — at its Moffett Field base around four miles from... Continue Reading →